JUST occasionally you get an unexpected, retrospective glimpse at some of our biggest names and greatest players from yesteryear and that happened this week when I was delving into the rugby history of Emanuel School, which appears on Page 36 of The Rugby Paper edition.
Meryn Davies was famously a teacher and coach at Emanuel between 1970 and 1972 and we, the awestruck opposition players, probably remember him almost as much as his Emanuel disciples. I remember him one chilly match day on the touchline at the Whitgift U13 Sevens, cool as hell in his brown Hush Puppies and faded brown cord j...